Helsinki Times

Helsinki Times is the first English language daily online newspaper in Finland providing news about Finland and the world for English-speaking readers resident in the country. A weekly printed edition was issued between 2007 and 2015.

Helsinki Times
TypeOnline newspaper
Owner(s)Dream Catcher Oy
EditorAlexis Kouros
Founded2007
Ceased publication2015 (print)
HeadquartersHelsinki
Websitewww.helsinkitimes.fi

History
Helsinki Times one-year anniversary advertisement in a Helsinki Tram in 2008.

Helsinki Times was established in April 2007 by Iranian-born doctor, writer, journalist and director Alexis Kouros who settled in Finland in 1990.[1] A paper version was published in tabloid format.[2] and was eventually discontinued in February 2015.[3] However, until today, helsinkitimes.fi is updated several times per day with domestic news about Finland in English, resulting in a huge archive of Finland related articles compiled of a good number of original and translated articles.

Helsinki Times has had partnerships with The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Reuters, Inter Press Service, People's Daily, and other prominent international media outlets. Columns and articles from these media had been published in Helsinki Times regularly and some of them advertised their sites and services in Helsinki Times. Domestically, Helsinki Times partnered with Finland's main newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat, where Helsinki Times was the official English language edition of Helsingin Sanomat. During that partnership, which lasted from 2014 to 2016, in addition to its original columns and articles, some articles from the Finnish paper were translated and published in English on the website of Helsinki Times.[4]

Nowadays, Helsinki Times is a free online newspaper published by media company Dream Catcher, which can be read without subscription. The site has more than 300 000 unique visitors each month. Notable guest columnists included Mikhail Gorbachev, Dilma Rousseff, Calestous Juma, Pekka Haavisto, Yuri Fedotov, Cynthia McKinney, Giovanni Buttarelli, Jutta Urpilainen, Sanni Grahn-Laasonen, Bill Durodié, Veltto Virtanen, and Maria Guzenina.[5][6]

Apart from Helsinki Times, award-winning documentaries and TV series, and books, Dream Catcher is also publishing SixDegrees, an online service featuring articles and columns about lifestyle, culture, society, as well as interviews and weekly guest contributions by immigrants in Finland.[7]

In 2020 and 2021, the news site has sections for China News in English and Simplified Chinese, whose articles are provided directly by People's Daily, the official mouthpiece of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, and which have downplayed the Xinjiang internment camps[8] and published Chinese state disinformation about COVID-19.[9] It defended the arrangement as an attempt to balance allegedly biased Western media reports.[9]

See also

References
  1. English Supplement Archived 14 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine Helsinki Info. Issue 6. 13 December 2010. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  2. "Newspapers and News Magazines - Europe". Infocobuild. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  3. Pietiläinen, Tuomo (10 February 2015). "'Emme halunneet myydä propagandalehdeksi' – Helsinki Times lopettaa paperiversionsa". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish).
  4. "Helsingin Sanomat and Helsinki Times to cooperate". Helsinki Times. 13 November 2013. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
    "Helsingin Sanomat ja Helsinki Times yhteistyöhön". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). 14 November 2013. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
  5. Viewpoint. helsinkitimes.fi. Retrieved on 22 July 2016.
  6. MP Talk. helsinkitimes.fi. Retrieved on 22 July 2016.
  7. What is SixDegrees?. 6d.fi. Retrieved on 22 July 2016.
  8. "Western allegation of genocide in Xinjiang hardly convincing: Singaporean newspaper". Helsinki Times. 12 June 2021. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
  9. Kinetz, Erika (15 February 2021). "Anatomy of a conspiracy: With COVID, China took leading role". Associated Press. Retrieved 12 March 2021. On Feb. 22, People's Daily ran a report highlighting speculation that the U.S. military brought the virus to China, pushing the story globally through inserts in newspapers such as the Helsinki Times in Finland and the New Zealand Herald.
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